From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, muli@il.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND] [NET] fib_rules: Flush route cache after rule modifications
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:19:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070328111921.GA2703@ff.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070327133845.GM521@postel.suug.ch>
On 27-03-2007 14:38, Thomas Graf wrote:
> The results of FIB rules lookups are cached in the routing cache
> except for IPv6 as no such cache exists. So far, it was the
> responsibility of the user to flush the cache after modifying any
> rules. This lead to many false bug reports due to misunderstanding
> of this concept.
>
> This patch automatically flushes the route cache after inserting
> or deleting a rule.
I hope I'm wrong, but isn't this at the cost of admins
working with long rules' sets, which (probably) take extra
time now?
Regards,
Jarek P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-28 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-27 13:38 [RESEND] [NET] fib_rules: Flush route cache after rule modifications Thomas Graf
2007-03-27 20:57 ` David Miller
2007-03-28 11:19 ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
2007-03-28 15:49 ` Thomas Graf
2007-03-28 18:24 ` David Miller
2007-03-28 19:34 ` Thomas Graf
2007-03-28 19:40 ` David Miller
2007-03-29 10:03 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-03-29 10:15 ` Jarek Poplawski
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